East Barsham, Norfolk
Historical Description
Barsham, East, a parish in Norfolk, 2¼ miles N of Fakenham station on the G.E.R. There is a post office at Fakenham; money order and telegraph office, New Walsingham. Acreage, 1194; population of the civil parish, 196; of the ecclesiastical, 456. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Little Snoring, in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £630 with residence, in the gift of Lord Hastings. The church is old but good. Henry VIII. walked barefooted from East Barsham to Walsingham, in 1510, to make a votive offering of a necklace. The hall here is a fine specimen of Tudor brickwork, and was erected in the reign of Henry VII.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Norfolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | East Barsham All Saints | |
Hundred | Gallow | |
Poor Law union | Walsingham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Norfolk Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers for Norfolk online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for East Barsham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1662-1915 | 1662-1915 | 1689-1901 | 1661-1908 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for East Barsham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barsham, East (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of East Barsham are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:
- Norwich Mercury
- Norfolk Chronicle
- Diss Express
- Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal
- Norfolk News
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.